Radiolabeled WBC scintigraphy in the diagnostic workup of patients with suspected device-related infections

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1075-1086

  Erba, Paola A ^a   Sollini, Martina ^a   Conti, Umberto ^b   Bandera, Francesco ^b   Tascini, Carlo ^b   De Tommasi, Salvatore M ^b   Zucchelli, Giulio ^b   Doria, Roberta ^b   Menichetti, Francesco ^b   Bongiorni, Maria Grazia ^b   Lazzeri, Elena ^a   Mariani, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

99mTc HMPAO WBCs; cardiac device infection; disease burden; SPECT CT

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEXAMETHYPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMBOLISM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

(18)F-LABELED FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; (99M)TC-HMPAO-WBC; (99M)TC-HMPAO-WBCS; CARDIAC DEVICE INFECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR IMPLANTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE; CIED; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT; DISEASE BURDEN; SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPECT; SPECT/CT; TECHNITIUM-99M-HEXAMETHYL PROPYLENE AMINE OXIME-LABELED AUTOLOGOUS WHITE BLOOD CELL; [(18)F]FDG PET/CT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; ITALY; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84886055142     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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